STRESS TESTING THE US PRIVACY FRAMEWORK

摘要

Two of the major developments in privacy over the past year highlight the unique system of privacy laws in the United States (US). The first is the EU-US Privacy Shield framework that the European Commission (EC) and the US government finalised in July 2016. Privacy Shield offers a simplified mechanism for companies to transfer personal data of European Union (EU) citizens to the US in a manner that satisfies the requirements of EU privacy laws. The second is the emergence of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as a key regulator of privacy and data security, particularly through a set of new privacy and data security rules it imposed on broadband internet access service providers ('broadband providers').